Bulmer & Lequesne

Features: This volume offers a thematic study of EU member states, covering a number of analytical themes such as issues of convergence and divergence and the interaction between the competing political and policy-making logics of EU governance and national governance.

Contents

1. Introduction (Simon Bulmer/Christian Lequesne)
Part I: Analytical themes
2. Power and influence: assessing member states’ roles in EU governance and negotiation (Helen Wallace)
3. EU-member state relations in the theoretical/analytical debate (Tanja Börzel)
Part 2: Countries
4. Germany (Jeffrey Anderson)
5. France (Richard Balme)
6. The United Kingdom (David Allen)
7. Italy/Spain (Federiga Bindi)
8. Benelux countries (Erik Jones)
9. Austria/Ireland (Gerda Falkner)
10. Nordic countries (Morten Egeberg)
11. Portugal/Greece (Béatrice Hibou)
Part 3: Empirical themes
12. The European Union and member state institutions (Hussein Kassim)
13. The European Union and political forces (Robert Ladrech)
14. The Europeanisation of national policy? (Claudio Radaelli/Simon Bulmer)
15. Towards a European economy: the end of national models? (Vivien Schmidt)
Part 4: Enlargement and Conclusion
16. The candidate states and the EU (Klaus Goetz)
17. Conclusion (Simon Bulmer/Christian Lequesne)